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        <a id="folks" name="folks"></a>Folks-0.13.2
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        <h2 class="sect2">
          Introduction to Folks
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        <p>
          <span class="application">Folks</span> is a library that aggregates
          people from multiple sources (e.g, <span class=
          "application">Telepathy</span> connection managers and <span class=
          "application">Evolution Data Server</span>, Facebook, etc.) to
          create metacontacts.
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          This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1
          platform.
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          Package Information
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              <p>
                Download (HTTP): <a class="ulink" href=
                "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/folks/0.13/folks-0.13.2.tar.xz">
                http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/folks/0.13/folks-0.13.2.tar.xz</a>
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                Download (FTP): <a class="ulink" href=
                "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/folks/0.13/folks-0.13.2.tar.xz">
                ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/folks/0.13/folks-0.13.2.tar.xz</a>
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                Download MD5 sum: e9e8d37bbd2b6405c5d23269d9df2d49
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                Download size: 512 KB
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                Estimated disk space required: 42 MB (add 18 MB for tests)
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                Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4i, add 1.0
                SBU for tests)
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          Folks Dependencies
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          Required
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          <a class="xref" href="evolution-data-server.html" title=
          "evolution-data-server-3.34.4">evolution-data-server-3.34.4</a>,
          <a class="xref" href="../general/gobject-introspection.html" title=
          "gobject-introspection-1.62.0">gobject-introspection-1.62.0</a>,
          <a class="xref" href="libgee.html" title=
          "libgee-0.20.3">libgee-0.20.3</a>, <a class="xref" href=
          "../general/python-modules.html#python-dbusmock" title=
          "dbusmock-0.19">dbusmock-0.19</a>, and <a class="xref" href=
          "../general/telepathy-glib.html" title=
          "telepathy-glib-0.24.1">telepathy-glib-0.24.1</a>
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          Recommended
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          <a class="xref" href="../general/bluez.html" title=
          "BlueZ-5.53">BlueZ-5.53</a> and <a class="xref" href=
          "../general/vala.html" title="Vala-0.46.6">Vala-0.46.6</a>
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        <h4>
          Optional
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          <a class="xref" href="tracker.html" title=
          "Tracker-2.3.2">Tracker-2.3.2</a> (Broken due to API changes in
          tracker), <a class="ulink" href=
          "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsocialweb/">libsocialweb</a>,
          and <a class="ulink" href=
          "https://packages.debian.org/jessie/zeitgeist">Zeitgeist</a>
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        <p class="usernotes">
          User Notes: <a class="ulink" href=
          "http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/folks">http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/folks</a>
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        <h2 class="sect2">
          Installation of Folks
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        <p>
          Install <span class="application">Folks</span> by running the
          following commands:
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        <pre class="userinput">
<kbd class="command">mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</kbd>
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          To test the results, issue <span class="command"><strong>ninja
          test</strong></span> from a local X session started with
          <span class="command"><strong>dbus-launch</strong></span>.
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          Now, as the <code class="systemitem">root</code> user:
        </p>
        <pre class="root">
<kbd class="command">ninja install</kbd>
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        <h2 class="sect2">
          Command Explanations
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          <code class="option">-Dtracker_backend=true</code>: This switch
          enables building the <span class="application">Tracker</span>
          backend. Use it if you have <span class=
          "application">Tracker</span> installed. This functionality is
          current broken, however, due to an upstream API change in Tracker
          that hasn't been accounted for in this package.
        </p>
        <p>
          <code class="option">-Ddocs=true</code>: This switch enables
          documentation generation.
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          Contents
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Programs:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">folks-import and folks-inspect</span>
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Libraries:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">libfolks-dummy.so, libfolks-eds.so,
              libfolks.so, and libfolks-telepathy.so</span>
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Directories:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">/usr/include/folks and
              /usr/lib/folks</span>
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            Short Descriptions
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                  <p>
                    <a id="folks-import" name="folks-import"></a><span class=
                    "term"><span class=
                    "command"><strong>folks-import</strong></span></span>
                  </p>
                </td>
                <td>
                  <p>
                    is used to import meta-contact information to libfolks.
                  </p>
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                  <p>
                    <a id="folks-inspect" name=
                    "folks-inspect"></a><span class="term"><span class=
                    "command"><strong>folks-inspect</strong></span></span>
                  </p>
                </td>
                <td>
                  <p>
                    is used to inspect meta-contact information in libfolks.
                  </p>
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                  <p>
                    <a id="libfolks-eds" name="libfolks-eds"></a><span class=
                    "term"><code class=
                    "filename">libfolks-eds.so</code></span>
                  </p>
                </td>
                <td>
                  <p>
                    contains Evolution specific implementations of the
                    libfolks classes.
                  </p>
                </td>
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                  <p>
                    <a id="libfolks" name="libfolks"></a><span class=
                    "term"><code class="filename">libfolks.so</code></span>
                  </p>
                </td>
                <td>
                  <p>
                    contains the <span class="application">Folks</span> API
                    functions.
                  </p>
                </td>
              </tr>
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                  <p>
                    <a id="libfolks-telepathy" name=
                    "libfolks-telepathy"></a><span class="term"><code class=
                    "filename">libfolks-telepathy.so</code></span>
                  </p>
                </td>
                <td>
                  <p>
                    contains Telepathy specific implementations of the
                    libfolks classes.
                  </p>
                </td>
              </tr>
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